Site Adds Music Videos

By KAREN KAPLAN

Jan. 25, 1999 12 AM PT

Launch Media, the Santa Monica company that produces a music magazine on CD-ROM, will acquire MusicVideos.com to broaden the content on its Web site, the companies will announce today.

Newport Beach-based MusicVideos.com features nearly 1,000 alternative, dance, country and hip-hop videos and serves up more than 1 million videos each month. Those videos will now be available at Launch’s music-oriented Web site, https://www.launch.com.

Four of MusicVideos.com’s five employees have agreed to join Launch in Santa Monica, but other terms of the deal will not be disclosed.

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Karen Kaplan

Karen Kaplan covers science and medical research for the Los Angeles Times. She has been a member of the science team since 2005, including 13 years as an editor. Her first decade at The Times was spent covering technology in the Business section as both a reporter and editor. She grew up in San Diego and is a graduate of MIT and Columbia University.

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